Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Students read "The Guest" by Albert Camus on pages 1246-1257 of the literature textbook.

Students then completed the Thinking Through the Literature and the Vocabulary in Action on pages 1258-1259. All assignments not completed in class should be completed for homework.

Final Exam for English II will be Thursday, December 14, 2006.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Read the poems on pages 1182-1185 of the Literature Textbook and complete the Thinking Through the Literature on page 1186.

Complete the Wordskills workbook Unit 12 pages 130-135.

Friday, December 8, 2006

Students will read Modern and Contemporary Literature 1900-present on pages 1096-1106.
Students will then write and discuss how the eras studied have influenced modern and contemporary literature.
Students will read "The Jay" by Yasunari Kawabata on pages 1174-1179. Then students will complete Thinking Through the Literature page 1180.

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Thursday, December 7, 2006

Students will finish presentations of research projects.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Stdents began presenting research projects and abstracts to the class. Students will continue making presentations Thursday.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Students read "A Problem" on pages 1000-1005. Students will complete Thinking Through on page 1006 and Context Clues on page 1007.
Complete Wordskills Workbook Unit 11 page 119-120.

Ms. Postell was out sick.

Monday, December 4, 2006

Students compared and contrasted Romanticism and Realism (three paragraphs).
Student then read "A Piece of String" by Guy de Maupassant on pages 946-951, and completed Thinking Through on page 952. Ms. Postell was out sick.

Friday, December 1, 2006

Students wrote essays to practice writing processes in preparation for the FCAT Writes. The writing assignment is listed below:

Writing Situation

People have different qualities that are important to them.

Directions for Writing

Think about the personal quality that is most important to you.

Write to explain if being popular, accomplishing things, or being organized is most important to you and why you chose that quality.

Students used the remainder of class time to work on their research projects. These projects are due Tuesday, December 5, 2006.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!

TEN DAYS LEFT UNTIL CHRISTMAS BREAK!!

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Students wrote timed essays to practice for the FCAT writes

Wirting Situations

You and your parents have very different ideas about music. Persuade your parents to listen to your favorite music.


Directions for Writing

Teenagers and their parents often argue about music. Think about discussions you might have had. Now, write to convince your parents to listen to your favorite music for a change.


After completing the writing assignment, students were allowed the remainder of class time to work on their research projects.

Wednesday, November 29,2006

Complete Thinking Through the Literature on page 896 questions 1-8.

Complete a Nicenet discussion and post to your blogs.

Complete Wordskills workbook pages 113-114.

Homework: Read pages 899-902

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Today students read background information about the Age of Romanticism. Students read portions of the drama Faust in the literature textbook (pages 870-896).
After reading students completed writing option number 2 on page 897 of the textbook. This assignment was placed on their blog - title the post: Story of Ambition.

Students used the remaining time to work on research projects which are due December 5, 2006.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Today we reviewed the test results of the SCPT given August 30th. Students were given copies of the data to determine their weaknesses and strengths in the reading clusters that will be tested on the FCAT.

Students practiced pages 105-106 of the wordskills workbooks - determining meaning using context clues, prefixes and suffixes.

Wordskills workbook Unit 10 Section A was completed and turned in.

Students were then given the remainder of class time to work on research projects.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Students had the entire block to conduct research for projects due December 5. This research was conducted via internet and media center. Have a Wonderful Holiday!!!!

Monday, November 20, 2006

Students completed vocabulary exercises on pages 100-105 of the Wordskills workbooks.

Students then continued working on research projects.

Friday, November 17, 2006

We discussed the things that should be included in the abstract:

1. The guiding question
2. Sources used during research
3. A summary of what is included in the presentation

All of these things must be in the abstract. In addition to the abstract, a works cited page must be attached (use proper MLA format).

The remainder of class time was used to work on research projects - these projects are due December 4, 2006.

Thrusday Nov. 16

We Went To The Book Fair For The 1st 15mins Of Class

Then We Worked On Our Research Projects for the remainder of the class period.


SC-Tekeya

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Students will study the Shakespearean sonnet on pages 815-816, and complete Thinking Through Literature page 817 of the literature textbook.

Students then added a discussion topic to their blogs using NiceNet.

Continued work on research project. The class will go to the Book Fair Thursday during class.

Tuesday November 14

Wrote FCAT Prompt
Read Sonnet Prompt In Literature Textbook Pages 804-809
Answer Questions 1-7 Thinking Through The Literaure On Page 810



SC-Tekeya

Monday November 13

Read literature of the renaissance pages 772-784
Wrote Compare and Contrast of the renaissance and the middle ages
Word Skills Pages 91-99

SC-Tekeya

Class News

Book Fair!!!! - Thursday students will be going to the Media Center where books will be on sale for Book Week. Students are encouraged to bring money to purchase any titles they might be interested in having.

Research Project --- Students will conduct research on a selected topic. Students have already selected their topics and created a guiding question. The project is due December 4 and will be 20% of their comprehensive final exam.

College/Career Project --- Students will begin a journal in which they collect information and resources to help prepare them for their futures after graduation.

Class News

Book Fair!!!! - Thursday students will be going to the Media Center where books will be on sale for Book Week. Students are encouraged to bring money to purchase any titles they might be interested in having.

Research Project --- Students will conduct research on a selected topic. Students have already selected their topics and created a guiding question. The project is due December 4 and will be 20% of their comprehensive final exam.

College/Career Project --- Students will begin a journal in which they collect information and resources to help prepare them for their futures after graduation.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Today we completed our reading of Dante's Inferno. For homework, we will create a visual of Dante's description of Hell and the different levels. Our depiction will be due Monday, with the explanation. We used the reainder of class time to review our progress report for the class and collect further research for our projects.

Thursday, November 9, 2006

1. Read Literature of Middle Ages pages 686-695 of the literature textbook.
2. Answer the following questions:

a. What practical use did the fine art serve in the Middle Ages?
b. What features distinguished the Gothic style of architecture fromk the Romanesque?
c. Compare/contrast the women of the Middle Ages, Persia and West Africa.

3. Now read Dante's Inferno pages 732-747.
4. Complete Thinking Through the Literature on page 747. Place responses on your blog. Title the post: Charon.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Today we read Tales of Anansi the Spider pages 651-656 of the literature textbook.
We then read The Tales of Ijtomi the Spider on pages 658-661. After reading both stories we completed the Thinking Through the Literature on pages 657 and 662 (Complete all questions).

These assignments were placed in the basket at the end of clasas.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Students will write a timed-essay using a expository writing prompt: Think about the best day you've ever had with your family. Now write an essay explaining why that day was best.


Students read background information about West African Oral Literature, textbook pages 612-623. Then students answered the following questions:

a. Why do parts of U.S., Latin and Caribbean culture show West African influence?
b. What is a diviner?
c. What is a queen mother?
d. How were the lives of enslaved and freeborn people similar?
e. How were their lives different?
f. Judging from your knowledge of slavery in the Americas, how was early West African slavery different?
g. What are some functions of West African oral literature?
h. What elements do traditional West African religions share?

Monday, November 6, 2006

Today we completed pages 83-90 of the Wordskills workbook. Then we went on a MLA scavenger hunt. We had to locate the following types of books and write a works cited page using MLA format:

a. biography
b. novel
c. poem or short story from an anthology
d. personal interview
e. internet article


After we completed these assignments, we conduct further research on the internet for our research projects due December 4th.

cs-cp

Friday, November 3

Picture from Norway: winter dance in the mountains



1. Students will complete Writing Option 1 or 2 on page 590 of the literature textbook.
2. Students will complete the reading of The Lord of the Flies.
3. Students will write three paragraphs explaining the following:

If you were stranded on a deserted island with one of the characters from Lord of
the Flies, which character would it be and why?

4. Homework: Any work not completed in class should be completed for homework.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

STAY OFF THE MYSPACE!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Today we first read pages 564-571 in the textbook. Second we wrote a comparison between Persian and Arabic culture and the other cultures we have studied. Place this entry on your blog: title the post cultural comparison. Then we read The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor. page 582-588. Lastly we completed qustions 5 and 6 on page 589 - this assignment was placed in the basket.

sc- Harry Ramhofer

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Today we read The Cat in the Hat. We discussed how the themes and characters are similar to those in Lord of the Flies. We entered our comparison paragraph on blogs: the post was titled The Cat vs the Flies. We then worked on FCAT writing samples: revising and editing our writing.

cs-CP

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Today we started off with Tornado tv news. Now we are posting our nicenet entries to our blog. next were watching a movie about how to create a driving question for research projects. We then selected a topic and created a driving question for our research.
Homework: Read Lord of the Flies chapter ten.

Evita

Monday October 30, 2006

-Its Monday and on our list of things to do today is:

-We will start with Wordskills unit seven. We use the Wordskills book to help with grammar, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
-Next we will revise essays that we wrote about 2 weeks ago. We will need to correct them by using grammitical conventions, correct vocabulary and proper sentence structure.
-Then for homework students will receive an FCAT writing book in which they need to complete all examples (about 22 questions) for Tuesday.

SC-Emily Wyatt

-P.S-Make sure you keep your blog up to date because they will be getting checked soon. Also students should be finishing up Lord of the Flies this week sometime.

Friday, Oct.27

Today in class, we have to take a reading test on the book Lord of The Flies. But otherwise this should be a great day in class. We've just got finished watching the morning news,it wasn't that interesting,but it was ok. In class today the questions on the test are

1.Explain why you think the boys chose Ralph as their leader.
2.What does the conch symbolize in the story? Explain why
3.What effect does their time in the bathing pool have on Ralph and Jack?
4.When Rodger throws rocks at Henry, why doesn't he aim to hit?
5.What conclusion does Ralph come to about being chief? What about his own ability?
6.Ralph tells the group they should die before they let the fire go out. What does he mean by that comment?
7.Why do the twins assume that the dead parachutist is the beast?
8.What does Jack say about the new place he and Ralph have just explored would be a good place for? How does he suggest it could be defended?
9.With Jack in charge of the hunt, what does Ralph daydream about?
10.Describe the source of the conflict between Ralph and Jack?

Wednesday, October 26

Today students were given the opportunity to post to the interantional class through Nicenet. Students also read Lord of the Flies chapter 8 and began locating information for their research project which is due December 4, 2006.
cs-CP

Tues October 25

Today in English 2 we had our wordskills books handed back to the class and then we had to take a FACT writing prompt and then blogged and worked on nicenet.org.
FCAT Writing Situation
Students and school staff complain about the lunchroom. It is often too noisy and over-crowded and frequently, the lines are long.
Directions For Writing
Think about your school lunchroom and what you dislike. Write to explain what changes you would make to your lunchroom.

Monday, October 24

Today we started off with the Booker news, the first assignment is we are looking at the research project paper and discussing it, next we are discussing the book Lord of the Flies and reading it. well thats all we did today so goodbye!!!!!!
cs-Birttney Gritt

Monday, October 23, 2006

Complete Wordskills workbook Unit 6 (pages 62-70). After completing the vocabulary assignment please update information on your blog or read Lord of the Flies silently.

cs-CP

Friday,Oct.20,2006

Daily spark:blog down the theme and the charactertics on the chapters you read in the book "The Lord of the Flies" Title the blog:characterzation and theme.
cs-Ashley

Thursday October 19, 2006

Today in class we are to catch up on our blogs and some of us assisted the new students with their blogs. We are currently reading Lord of the Flies. Students are to be up to chapter three in the book. We had a small conversation about the PSAT's.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Class did not meet today because students were taking the PSAT test first and second blocks.
See you tomorrow!

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

1. Today we completed a timed essay using a persuasive prompt. The prompt is provided below:

Writing Situation

The principal at your school has instituted random locker and backpack/bookbag searches to check for guns, knives and other weapons. Anyone caught with these weapons will be immediately suspended.

Directions for Writing

What is your opinion on this issue? Do you think these searches will help students feel safer? Write a letter to your local newspaper stating your position and supporting it with convincing reasons.

2. When we completed the essay, we highlighted each topic sentence in the essay and drew a box around all transitional words or phrases.

3. Silent reading of the novel Lord of the Flies. We should be finished with chapter three by Thursday.

4. PSAT testing tomorrow during 1st and 2nd blocks.

5. Students who were absent Monday must complete Wordskills unit 5 on pages 52-61 and turn-in Thursday.

cs-Big Baby

Monday October 16, 2006

Today we started off with our wordskills Unit 5 pages 52-61. We also need to post for nicenet because we aren't going to be here wednesday because we have PSAT.
cs-Aaron

Thursday, October 12

1. Students continued to complete online classroom assignments.

2. Students were to place three things they would like to find out more information in their daily spark journals and answer the following questions about each topic : (a) who would you trust the most to provide truthful information on the subject? (b) who whould you trust the least to give you truthful information on the subject? (c) where would you look to find out more information about the subject?

Monday, October 9

IT'S SPIRIT WEEK!


1. Complete exercises 21 and 22 in the Writing & Grammar textbooks (pages 496-497)

2. Read "The Deserted Crone" on pages 518-531 of your literature textbooks.

3. Complete Thinking Through the Literature" on page 532 (omit quesstion number 2).

Have a "Spirit-filled" week:

Monday - College Sports Day
Tuesday - Tacky Day
Wednesday - Twin Day
Thursday - Spirit Day (Purple & Gold)
Friday - No School - Homecoming Game @ 7:30pm
Saturday - Homecoming dance (semi-formal) Stardust Event Center 8:00-12:00pm

Friday, October 6

Daily spark. Answer question number 7 on page 516 in your spark journal.

1. Complete Connect to Today on page 517 and answer the questions at the bottom of the page.
2. In your literary circles read pages 518-531.
3. Homework: Answer questions 7 and 8 on page 522. Title your answers Deseated Crone.

SC- Rico

Wednesday, October 4

Students gathered in the theater for a Pathways presentation. Students were given information about graduation requirements. The presentation took nearly the entire block.

Tuesday, October 3

Students will write a practice FCAT writing using a prompt. After completing the essay, students will use research skills and complete page 471 in the literature textbook under the heading "research project".

No Homework

Monday October 2,2006

Daily Spark...
Read page R68 and answer the questions on page R69.

Daily Assignments
Literacy Circle.
1. In your groups, read information about literature of Japan an pages 486-493

2. Compare and contrast what your've read about literature of China and Japan

3. Read the passage from "The Pillow Book" pages 500-505

4. Place a one paragraph response to question number 5 on page 506 on your blog title the post "The Pillow Book...


Then our homework is to Complete wordskills pages 46-47

SC-Patrick Bedell

Thursday September 28,2006

Today in English 2 we started the class with daily spark which we had to read poems and answer the following questions.We also helped finding someone's lost binder.After the daily spark we were suppose to use our time to catch up on missing assignments or we could use our time to do are project that is creeping up slowly.Well thats it,not much I know,but it is better than nothing.




sc-Mark A. Cochran

Tuesday September 26, 2006

Daily Spark- review prepositions, interjections and conjunctions on page R54-R65. Then complete the grammar practice on page R65.

Daily Assignments

1. Add your anecdote written yesterday to your blog. The title should be the title of your story.

2. Read "Song of P'eng-ya" by Tu Fu, pages 468-469. Complete the Thinking Through Literature on page 470 (omit question number 3).

3. Alternative Assignment: Due October 5- you are free to work on your project for the remainder of class.

sc- Katie